The saga continues.
While waiting for a replacement motherboard for my Lenovo T5, I hauled
out a computer I had taken out of service about 16 months ago to have a
working machine until I finally can install the motherboard. But here's
the thing. When it boots up, I can use the keyboard and mouse at the
BIOS screen and through most of the process -- but near the end, after
enabling the network fails, it loses the keyboard. The mouse stays
connected. So I get a login screen but no way to talk to it. Same
problem using other keyboards. Eventually I figured out how to boot
from a USB stick, and that gets all the way up with the keyboard, so
it's something odd in the setup on the computer itself. I haven't tried
to ssh in, because at the moment it tries to boot into a static ethernet
address which isn't available, and so network connectivity fails.
The system runs Arch Linux. The "easy" thing to do is just re-install
Arch and start with a clean slate, which is likely what I'll do, but if
anyone knows a quick and dirty fix I'd at least be able to save some
configuration information from the computer. (Yes, I can do that from
an Arch install USB by mounting / chrooting into it, but I'd rather
understand the problem first.)
Any idea what gives? Obviously a module for running the keyboard isn't
being loaded somewhere...
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